a. (UN-1 7 b.)
c. 1450. Holland, Howlat, 928. ‘My first making,’ quoth scho, ‘was vnamendable.’
c. 1550. Cheke, Lett., in Athenæum, 28 Aug. (1909), 237/2. If you think yourself unamendable.
1561. Daus, trans. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573), 112. His vnamendable wickednes and continuall blasphemy.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. i. 6. Let vs aduise our selues to make our profit therof and let vs not be vnamendable.
1646. Baillie, Lett. & Jrnls. (1841), II. 378. The Independents miserable unamendable designe to keep all things from any conclusion.
1653. trans. Carmeni’s Nissena, 10. Struck with admiration to behold those … unamendable beauties.
1729. Pope, Lett. to Swift, 9 Oct. [Gay] is the same man. So is every one here that you know: mankind is unamendable.
1817. Bentham, Parl. Reform, Introd. 174. A pure and ever unamendable despotism.
1853. Whewell, Grotius, II. 277. When a man who is unamendable is removed from life, that he may not commit more or greater crimes.
